This is how Corbyn could become Prime Minister in six steps
Kick Theresa May when she's down. She’d do the same to you. Keep taunting her with ‘strong and stable’; make jokes about the DUP; ask where Nick and Fiona, her disastrous advisers, are these days
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Your support makes all the difference.Well, we’re halfway there Jeremy, and I am gratified that you’ve followed my advice so far (and your own instincts, of course). As you luxuriate this weekend in winning four out of every 10 votes cast, confounding your critics, and make a special congratulatory phone call to the new Labour MP for Kensington (the London, not the Liverpool one), consider these next steps...
1. Put a call in to Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, Owen Smith and other past critics. Remind them that their main problem with you was that you’d be an electoral disaster. Remind them that you helped save some of their seats and that they happily agreed with much of your manifesto. Tell them the party and country needs them on the front bench.
Even if some are running important select committees, sign them up for a big role in the next campaign. Bring others back. Have a reshuffle, rewarding star performers: give some others a rest. Show you can run a strong and stable shadow government. Reach out to the Blairites. You have power of patronage now.
2. Kick Theresa May when she’s down. She’d do the same to you. Keep taunting her with “strong and stable”; make jokes about the DUP; ask where Nick and Fiona, her disastrous advisers, are these days; tell her she’s a prisoner of Arlene Foster and the 1922 Committee; ask if she intends to even fight the next election. Enjoy PMQs.
3. Tell Nicola Sturgeon she’s welcome to agree with your policies but remember she is on the run. Back Kezia Dugdale and push the message to the Scottish voters that if they don’t want to be ruled by English Tories then the best way is to vote for Scottish Labour. Doubly so if you don’t want independence. Stick to the established line that you’re happy to let Sturgeon have her referendum when there’s evidence Scotland wants it. Last week proves there wasn’t.
4. Get some business support. They despise you but fear hard Brexit more. Listen to business: be a “one nation” leader.
5. Tidy up the manifesto and smooth out some of the untidy bits. Answer the trickier questions about Brexit, tax avoidance and worries about defence. Remind people nukes don’t stop suicide bombers. Take the fight to the Tories on terrorism. The threat is not from the IRA or UDA these days.
6. Otherwise, more of the same: get more young people registered and motivated, keep up the summer heat on the Tories and SNP, use social media, sell the policies.
The next election is months away and the Tories have to get a new leader. You could be in by October. The ball is at your feet.
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